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The document discusses three studies on biodiesel and biofuel production:
1) A study investigating the efficacy of gossypol as an antioxidant additive in biodiesel produced from soybean oil, waste cooking oil, and methyl oleate. Gossypol showed improvements to oxidative stability, especially in soybean biodiesel which contains more endogenous tocopherols.
2) A study evaluating five plants growing on unproductive agricultural lands in China as potential biodiesel feedstocks. Four plants - Datura candida, Xanthium sibiricum, Kosteletzkya pentacarpos, and Hibiscus trionum - were identified as suitable due to their oil content and
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potencial de produção de biogás a partir de usinas de cana-de-açúcar no Brasil
The document discusses three studies on biodiesel and biofuel production:
1) A study investigating the efficacy of gossypol as an antioxidant additive in biodiesel produced from soybean oil, waste cooking oil, and methyl oleate. Gossypol showed improvements to oxidative stability, especially in soybean biodiesel which contains more endogenous tocopherols.
2) A study evaluating five plants growing on unproductive agricultural lands in China as potential biodiesel feedstocks. Four plants - Datura candida, Xanthium sibiricum, Kosteletzkya pentacarpos, and Hibiscus trionum - were identified as suitable due to their oil content and
The document discusses three studies on biodiesel and biofuel production:
1) A study investigating the efficacy of gossypol as an antioxidant additive in biodiesel produced from soybean oil, waste cooking oil, and methyl oleate. Gossypol showed improvements to oxidative stability, especially in soybean biodiesel which contains more endogenous tocopherols.
2) A study evaluating five plants growing on unproductive agricultural lands in China as potential biodiesel feedstocks. Four plants - Datura candida, Xanthium sibiricum, Kosteletzkya pentacarpos, and Hibiscus trionum - were identified as suitable due to their oil content and
energy, Ethanol etc.) NPARR 3(3), 2012-0272, Efficacy of gossypol as an antioxidant additive in biodiesel The efficacy of gossypol as an antioxidant additive in fatty acid methyl esters (FAMEs) prepared from soybean oil (SME), waste cooking oil (WCME) and technical grade methyl oleate (MO) was investigated. Gossypol is a naturally occurring polyphenolic aldehyde with antioxidant properties isolated from cottonseed that is toxic to humans and animals. At treatment levels of 250 and 500 ppm, gossypol exhibited statistically significant improvements in the induction periods (IPs; EN 14112) of SME, WCME and MO. Efficacy was most pronounced in SME, which was due to its higher concentration of endogenous tocopherols (757 ppm) versus WCME (60 ppm) and MO (0 ppm). A comparison of antioxidant efficacy was made with butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) and tocopherol. For FAMEs with low concentrations of endogenous tocopherols (WCME and MO), tocopherol exhibited the greatest efficacy, although treatments employing BHT and gossypol also yielded statistically significant improvements to oxidative stability. In summary, gossypol was effective as an exogenous antioxidant for FAMEs investigated herein. In particular, FAMEs containing a comparatively high percentage of endogenous tocopherols were especially suited to gossypol as an antioxidant additive [Bryan R. Moser* (Bio-Oils Research Unit, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, 1815 N. University St., Peoria, IL 61604, USA), Renewable Energy, 2012, 40(1), 65-70]. NPARR 3(3), 2012-0273, Potential of five plants growing on unproductive agricultural lands as biodiesel resources due
Fossil fuels are being heavily depleted
to increasing anthropogenic activities
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worldwide, and burning them contributes to
global climate warming and air pollution. Vegetable oils are one of the main feedstocks for biodiesel: they are non-toxic and environmentally friendly. Rising global population, decreasing arable lands and a decline in crop yields from desertification and salinization demands that biodiesel feedstock be grown on unproductive agricultural lands. To estimate whether five plants growing on such land in China could be used as energy plants, we determined their seed oil content (SOC) and relative fatty acid content, and estimated the cetane number (CN) of the biodiesel produced from these plant oils by a fitted regression between different C18 fatty acids and CN. Results showed that four plants can be developed as energy plants, including Datura candida (SOC=22.9%, CN=0.8), Xanthium sibiricum (SOC=41.9%, CN=46.5), Kosteletzkya pentacarpos (SOC=18.6%, CN=45.9) and Hibiscus trionum (SOC=17.5%, CN=46.9). The fifth plant, Rhus typhina, was not adapted as an energy plant because of its low SOC, 9.7%. Our data provide a scientific basis for growing energy plants in unproductive agricultural lands as biodiesel resources [ChengJiang Ruan*, Wei-He Xing and Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva (Key Laboratory of Biotechnology & Resources Utilization, Dalian Nationalities University, Dalian 116600, China), Renewable Energy, 2012, 41, 191-199]. NPARR 3(3), 2012-0274, Production potential of biogas in sugar and ethanol plants for use in urban buses in Brazil Brazil is one of the major producers of ethanol and sugar in the world. Ethanol has been used as a renewable fuel in passenger vehicles, decreasing the levels of pollution in big cities like So Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. On the other hand, sugarcane ethanol plants produce a waste of vinasse, which is used as organic fertilizer in cane plantations which causes soil and water contamination. The anaerobic digestion treatment
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can be used to reduce the pollution vinasse and,
concomitantly, to increase the production of biogas. This essay intended to reflect/discuss about the potential of biogas production from the anaerobic digestion of vinasse in Brazil, and the availability of its use in urban buses as gas fuel. Brazilian urban buses are using natural gas as fuel in big cities like Rio de Janeiro, but diesel prevails in most of the cities, and biogas can be important to reduce the dependence of a nonrenewable fuel in the country. The national potential for biogas production from vinasse
could replace 50% of the urban bus fleet in
Brazil. A big ethanol production plant has autonomy to supply 788 buses per day [Samuel Nelson Melegari de Souza*, Augustinho Borsoi, Reginaldo Ferreira Santos, Deonir Secco, Elisandro Pires Frigo and Marcelo Jos da Silva (State University of West of Paran - Graduate Program, Master Energy in Agriculture. Rua Universitria, 2069, CEP 85.819- 130, Bairro Faculdade, Cascavel, PR, Brazil), Journal of Food, Agriculture & Environment, 2012, 10(1), 908-910].